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• Tags: Features, Features, Nashville, MTSU's School, Pulitzer Prize Committee, The Philadelphia Inquirer

Whodunit?

The mysterious demise of Caring for Children

• by Roger Abramson
• Tags: Features, Features, Viola Miller, Bill Purcell, Nashville, Tennessee Department of Children's Services

Never-Ending Grief

Police turn their attention to Tabitha Tuders' older sister as the family cries foul

• by Matt Pulle
• Tags: Features, Features, Debra Tuders, Jamie Tuders, Faye Okert, Nashville

Smokers' Bill of Rights

• Tags: Features, Features, Tennessee Highway Patrol, Pringles, Tennessee, Henri Brooks

Word of the Week

• Tags: Features, Features, Andy Wise, Memphis

Dick Chaney

Temple's basketball coach is surely a jerk—but he's not as bad as the slick, new-school breed

• by Randy Horick
• Tags: Features, Features, Bob Knight, John Chaney, Boston Celtics, National Basketball Association

Off Limits

• Tags: Features, Features, Ashley Judd, Jimmy Naifeh, Will & Grace, Abby Rubenfeld

Falk, Yes

Actor, prog rocker among Nashville Film Festival guests

• by Jim Ridley
• Tags: Features, Features, Peter Falk, Rick Wakeman, Brian Gordon, John Pierson

The Godfather of Bluegrass

Even at age 81, banjoist Earl Scruggs is no museum piece

• by Jon Weisberger
• Tags: Features, Features, Earl Scruggs, Bill Monroe, Nashville, Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum

For the Records

Worldviews collided when The Tennessean took TennCare to court. Who won? Nobody.

• by John Spragens
• Tags: Features, Features, Bureau of TennCare, The Tennessean Newspaper, Gordon Bonnyman, E.J. Mitchell

I think this is a joke

• by Roger Abramson

That Place Over There with All the Oil and Random Bombings

• by Roger Abramson

Embarrassing

• by Roger Abramson

Blog Confab

• by Roger Abramson

Fumble on the Play

• by John Spragens

Naughty

• by Chris Neal

Monsieur Kerry

• by John Spragens

TennCare at length

• by John Spragens

Breaking News You Probably Haven't Read Yet...Unless You Have....Then Nevermind

• by Claire Suddath

Embarrassing is Also the Word...

• by Bruce Barry

The Expanding Fourth Estate

• by Bruce Barry

Smoking Gun?

• by Bruce Barry

Almost as Cool as a Carrot Top sighting

• by Claire Suddath

Newcomer Gets Most Votes in Chattanooga Mayor's Race

• by Roger Abramson

A Challenging Read

Art show at the downtown library reconsiders the essence of books

• by David Maddox
• Tags: Stories, Paris, Alesandra Bellos, Andy Harding, Lesley Patterson-Marx

Games People Play

Mystery novel explores the world of gambling

• Tags: Stories, James Swain, Tony Valentine, North Carolina, Las Vegas

Rules of the Game

Deana Carter and Jamie O'Neal work within and without the framework of mainstream country

• by Chris Neal
• Tags: Stories, Deana Carter, Jamie O'Neal, Nashville, Hollywood

Unsafe Stories

John Edgar Wideman's short fiction cuts close to the bone

• Tags: Stories, John Edgar Wideman, Houghton Mifflin Company, Harlem Globetrotters, Thelonious Monk

Are You Ready for the C'untry?

Outlaw scion Shooter Jennings comes on strong with his debut

• by Michael McCall
• Tags: Stories, Shooter Jennings, Waylon Jennings, Nashville, Leroy Powell

Shakespeare Festival Teams with Rep

• Tags: Stories, Nashville, Steve Cardamone, David Alford, William Shakespeare

Artful Fringe-dwellers

Indie-rock perennials Bettie Serveert deftly skirt the margins

• Tags: Stories, Carol van Dyk, Peter Visser, Bettie Serveert, Herman Bunskoeke

Empty Harvest

Melodrama hardly adds up to good theater in Bongo production

• by Martin Brady
• Tags: Stories, Myra Anderson, Amy Cassell, Polly Schlitz, Linda Speir

Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart

New Patty Hearst doc serves as a satire of radical chic

• Tags: Stories, Patty Hearst, Symbionese Liberation Army, Robert Stone, Richard Nixon

Political Asylum

Gulf War turns into bad trip in time-travel shocker

• by Jim Ridley
• Tags: Stories, John Maybury, Adrien Brody, Jack Starks, Iraq

Revolutionary Thinker

To celebrate the 40th anniversary of underground magazine Fifth Estate, legendary radical, poet and provocateur John Sinclair comes to town

• Tags: Stories, John Sinclair, John Lennon, Detroit, White Panther Party

The Spin

• Tags: Stories, be your own PET, Nashville, Jill Sobule, Jason Voyles

KumqWhat?

Paris Hilton eats a Whopper in Nashville—and other musings on the week

• by Claire Suddath
• Tags: Late Edition: Stories, Paris Hilton, Randall Gay, National Football League, Martha Stewart

Weekend Updates

Jam meets Jimbo at the clubs this week

• Tags: Late Edition: Stories, Umphrey's McGee, Nashville, Bettie Serveert, David Dark

Shots

Brock Party

Capitol Grille's boy genius gets a rare opportunity and—if you've got the green—so do you

• by Kay West
• Tags: Columns: Stories, Sean Brock, The James Beard Foundation, Hermitage Hotel, Martin Scorsese

Stars Over His Eyes

The folk-art films of Arkansas auteur Phil Chambliss open a world unto themselves

• by Jim Ridley
• Tags: Late Edition: Stories, Phil Chambliss, Nashville, Dub Cornett, Arkansas

The Disc Jockey

We heart Huckabees; also classics by Miyazaki and Preminger

• by Jason Shawhan
• Tags: Late Edition: Stories, Otto Preminger, Dave Chappelle, Hayao Miyazaki, Naomi Watts